Peas...thankfully not up the nose...yet

Today was our second attempt to feed Rebekah peas. She did a lot better than she did the first time. Its an entertaining video nonetheless. Enjoy!

Up'n At'em!!

It wasn't the most exciting thing for Mary (due to the fact that it means she's growing up way too fast) but Rebekah has been sitting up to play lately. She still loves her books and things that make noise, but she's moved on to putting things in holes, pushing buttons and pulling levers. She loves the toys from Grandpa and Grandma. Even now and then, Scott switches up the placement of the caterpillar to confuse the little one, but she still goes for the multi-lingual talking lady first. Scott has decided that with all of these videos, he is going to have to get an external hard drive to store them all. Hello Amazon! (unless there's somewhere cheaper...)

Wonderful Memories

So this will be our first entry I think where we don't just talk about Rebekah the whole time :o). Scott was able to go out to California this weekend to participate in the memorial for his late grandmother. Fortunately, there were a lot of good feelings and smiles and laughs during the weekend that made thinking of dear sweet Virginia all the more sweet.

After the memorial and reception, the family decided to spend the rest of the day at Jimmy's beach house in Santa Cruz. We were able to look through numerous photos of grandma, grandpa and the rest of the family when they were a lot younger. We also had some brotherly competition. I mean, come on, when don't we? So you guessed it, the ol' hit the can of soda off the arm of the chair with lemons game. I'm sure you've all heard of it :o). Jim was crowned champion of the match knocking it down 3 times while Scott only knocked it down twice and Kyle once. We also went down to the beach and had s'mores and did other 'beach' stuff. All in all it was a wonderful visit and a great time visiting family that Scott hadn't seen for quite a while.

On Friday we were able to go out on their first date of the year. Well, temple trips I guess are dates, too, but we're not out nearly as late on temple dates. We were able to go and see Phantom of the Opera. It was a wonderful night with magical music and performances. Scott enjoyed the Phantom singing the best. Hopefully we'll be able to see more soon. Maybe if Les Miserables comes to town.

This weekend we were also able to go to a block party for the 4th of July. It was a blast! Lots of food, fireworks and a 40 foot slide! Rebekah loved going down the slide with daddy. She had a good time watching all the other kids as well. She's definitely a watcher. We enjoyed the time together as a family but babykins was too tired to stay up for the fireworks so daddy took mom and baby home then went back for the rest. Hopefully next year she'll be able to last a little longer and watch some spectaculars.